Chapter 149: Qin Shuang's tragic death
Qu Zhao didn't know what to say, and saw that she took off her coat and wore a snow-white undershirt with a little velvet.
After taking off her coat, Zhao Huaiyan handed it to her, and when she entered the city, Zhao Huaiyan would still wear it.
Qu Zhao packed his clothes and whispered, "If the emperor feels cold, he must say it." ”
Zhao Huaiyan said with a smile, "It's not cold, if you drive the horse like this, where will it be cold." ”
Qu Zhao sighed, knowing that it was useless for him to say anything, so he had to kick the horse's belly violently, hoping to speed up his pace and rush to Qin State earlier, in that case, Zhao Huaiyan would be less affected by the cold wind, but in fact, the last time it was Zhao Huaiyan who was careless, Zhao Huaiyan's physical fitness is excellent, although she has not practiced martial arts since she was a child, and she was born in the warm southern country without cold frost, but she practiced dancing when she was a child, and her physique is much stronger than that of the women in the general boudoir, plus now she has practiced martial arts, and her physique is even stronger than before, riding horses all the way to the wind, I didn't feel cold, but it got hotter and hotter.
After arriving at the border of Qin, her face was already flushed, she wanted to take off another layer of clothes, and a lot of fine sweat fell on her forehead, she raised her arm and wiped it, and then in the twilight of the next night, she looked at the city gate of Qin.
Qu Zhao tightened the reins of the horse, called the horse to her side, and said, "It's finally here." ”
Zhao Huaiyan glanced at the sky, beat the horse and said, "Go to the city, go to the Tianxing Restaurant to book a room, and then we will go to the Prince's Mansion when it is dawn, find Qin Zhi and ask for Yan Guangning, and see what he says." ”
Qu Zhao nodded, "Well, that's a good idea. ”
She was the first to ride a horse and went to the city gates.
There were no barricades at the city gate of the Qin Kingdom, so the two of them entered the city very smoothly, and entered the city in the dark, Zhao Huaiyan and Qu Zhao were not in the mood to look around, and went straight to the address of the Tianxing Restaurant.
At this moment, in the Tianxing Restaurant, Tianxing was sitting beside Yan Guangning's bed with a solemn face, and in another place in this wing, another bed was placed, and on the other bed was lying with a blue-black flower sculpture on the skin of the whole body due to the flood of toxins.
Hua Diao's situation was extremely dangerous, because she only had one breath when Tianxing rescued her back.
And now, this breath has not been saved, and the toxin has invaded the internal organs.
Tianxing has been hidden in the Qin State for many years, and has also studied the famous poisons of the Qin State in private, but unfortunately, she is not a royal person, and there are many exclusive secret recipes that she can't get, even if she has a lot to do with Bo Jiang, it will not help.
Bo Jiang is the most respected general of Qin, deeply valued and loved by Emperor Qin, and is also Qin Zhi's enlightenment master, Bo Jiang, who is not yet forty years old, is a very iron-faced and selfless person, he does not give birth to beauty, nor does he delve into the side door, he is proficient in the art of war, iron smelting and military deployment, and can make friends with Tianxing, it is nothing more than because Tianxing is a master of weaponry, and the mask on the silver face is made by Tianxing himself.
It was not an ordinary mask, but a sharp weapon, which could also be said to be a hidden weapon.
Yinmian was sitting on the edge of Huadiao's bed at the moment, since yesterday when Huadiao was rescued, they bandaged her wounds, and also urgently poured antidote pills into Huadiao, the blood was stopped, but the poison could not be stopped.
Silver Face looked at the blue-black color all over Huadiao's face, shook his head and sighed heavily.
He stood up, came to the side of Tianxing, and said regretfully and sadly, "I'm afraid it will be difficult for the flower leader to get through this level. ”
Tianxing's face was calm, after bringing Yan Guangning back yesterday, she applied a needle to Yan Guangning's sleeping hole, so that she could sleep temporarily, so as not to be manipulated by Qin Zhi again.
At this moment, she was about to take out the silver needle to see if Yan Guangning was awake.
Listening to Yinmian's words, Tianxing's outstretched hand paused, she glanced at Yan Guangning, who was sleeping there and didn't know anything, then she stood up and came to Huadiao's bed, she stood there, looked at it very quietly for a while, and then said in a deep voice, "Go find someone to make the best coffin, and send a letter to Zhao Guo to explain the cause of Huadiao's death." ”
Silverface replied heavily, "Yes! ”
After Yinmian left, Tianxing sat in front of Huadiao's bed, she picked up Huadiao's hand, only to find that Huadiao's right hand had a little finger that was broken, she didn't know when this little finger was broken, and why, but she knew that as the leader of the Golden Spy Network in Yan Kingdom, Huadiao must have paid a lot for this, but now, but she died in Qin State, and she was so dead, she couldn't bear it, and she couldn't let go of the culprit!
Tianxing gently let go of Huadiao's hand, and said word by word, "Don't worry, I, Tianxing, will definitely not let go of the person who calculates you, and when the emperor receives the letter, she will definitely avenge you, you just have to go, and the enemy will be handed over to us." ”
Tianxing planned to go to Bo Jiang and ask him to find a way to get the antidote to the puppet dispersion, so that he could calculate Qin Zhi in turn.
But before she could act, the shopkeeper Xin came up and knocked on her door with a palace-like ornament.
Tianxing asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?" ”
Shopkeeper Xin said, "Boss, there was a guest downstairs just now, who said that he wanted to see you, and brought a thing, saying that you had seen her, and he would definitely be willing to meet her." ”
Tianxing was not in the mood to meet anyone at this time, she just wanted to kill people, in the Qin Kingdom for so many years, there were many people who came to Tianxing Restaurant to see her, and there were also many people with strange things, she asked in a cold voice, "Who is it?" Where did it come from? ”
Shopkeeper Xin recalled, "I didn't say where I came from, but it seems that I said that my surname is Zhao." ”
Zhao?
Tianxing was stunned, it was really unbelievable that the surname Zhao could appear in another country, and before she had time to think about it, her body had already instinctively walked towards the door, she opened the door and stretched out her hand.
Shopkeeper Xin immediately picked up the object and held it up in front of her.
Don't look closely, just glance at it, the star is frightened, it is not a palace silk, nor a jade pendant, but a symbol of the body of Princess Zhao Huaiyan, not a jade pendant inlaid with words and a dragon in the Nine Kingdoms, it is a special Zhao family and Bi, the body is round, the whole body is open, the body is five rings, the middle two sides are open and tied with a peace knot, the knot rope is tied at one end of a thousand spikes, the other end is tied with a copper coin, and below the copper coin, there is a fork made of iron.
Qianyu royal family, on behalf of the supreme, spike to agriculture, copper money to business, fork halberd to scholars, this is the princess of Zhao unique ornaments, meaning the four sides of the heavens, therefore, this thing is also called the four square circle.
Sifangyuan is the unique ornament of the princess of Zhao Guo, and because it is the highest token of the command of the Golden Spy Network, of course, without this token, the princess of Zhao Guo herself can also mobilize the entire Golden Spy Network.
And the token appeared, it is likely to be the princess herself, no, it should be said that the emperor himself has arrived here.
Tianxing stretched out her hand to take the square circle, clasped it tightly in the palm of her hand, she restrained the shock and excitement in her heart, and asked the shopkeeper Xin, "Where is this person now?" ”
Shopkeeper Xin said, "The Shangzi box in the side hall downstairs. ”
Tianxing said, "Got it, you go get busy, I'll go meet this person." ”
Shopkeeper Xin sighed, bowed down, and went down to get busy.
Tianxing closed the door, went downstairs to the side hall, pushed open the door of Shangzi's box, and before his feet stepped in, Qu Zhao heard a sound, opened from Zhao Huaiyan's side, came to the door, saw Tianxing, she squinted, Tianxing saw her, immediately closed the door with his backhand, and shouted at her in surprise, "Qu Zhao!" ”
Qu Zhao arched his hand and smiled, "Tianxing, it's been a long time!" ”
Tianxing said excitedly, "The emperor is here?" ”
Qu Zhao responded, "Yes." ”
Skystar quickly pushed her away and walked inside.
Entering the room, I saw a row of wings, Zhao Huaiyan sat on the warm couch, charcoal fire burned at the bottom of the couch, she wore a thick cloak, held a cup of tea, leaned on the back of the couch to warm her hands, heard the sound, she raised her head slightly, and then the teacup was put down by her.
Tianxing stepped forward excitedly to salute, "Tianxing has seen the emperor, the emperor is blessed!" ”
Zhao Huaiyan put the teacup on the couch, but her hand did not leave, her fingertips were still buckled on the lid of the cup, she looked at Tianxing, and said directly, "I came because I heard from Lou Wei that something happened to Huadiao, and Princess Yan Guangning had an accident, and I came to deal with this matter." ”
Tianxing's heart sank, she didn't expect that this matter would alarm the emperor to come in person, but after thinking about it, she felt that it should be so.
The emperor has always loved the people very much, and cherished every courtier, the golden spy network is directly under the princess and belongs to the current emperor's organization, and the relationship with the emperor has always been very good, and, in addition to the commander-in-chief is a man, the leaders of the stationed in other countries are women, this arrangement is to facilitate communication with the emperor and cultivate feelings.
In addition, Yan Guangning is the eighth princess of Yan Kingdom, and her identity is extremely noble, and the emperor now has a marriage contract with Yan Chi, Yan Chi is probably entangled in something, and he can't come in person, so the emperor came.
And the emperor didn't send anyone else, but came in person, which shows that the emperor is really angry this time!
Tianxing guessed that Zhao Huaiyan was going to kill this time, so he knelt on the ground with a thud.
Zhao Huaiyan was slightly startled, but she sat still, only squinted her eyes slightly, and asked, "What is the star leader doing?" ”
Tianxing arched his hand, "Your Majesty, Huadiao's death is unjust, you must avenge her!" ”
Zhao Huaiyan moved her hand, half-propped herself up, supported her shoulders, and helped her up, her voice was slightly deep, "What the star leader said is to show that Huadiao has really died?" ”
Tianxing said sadly, "Well, I was incompetent and couldn't save Huadiao. ”
Zhao Huaiyan tightened his hand little by little, and Qu Zhao also clenched the knife in his hand after hearing the bad news.
Zhao Huaiyan let go of her hand, turned around and stepped down the steps, her cloak throwing a sharp arc behind her.
Zhao Huaiyan said, "Take me over." ”
Tianxing went to open the door, led the way, and brought Zhao Huaiyan upstairs, into her main and guest room, and to Huadiao's bed.
Huadiao's face was already slowly rotting, and a foul smell was spreading in the air.
Tianxing frowned, his face was ugly, "At first, I suspected that this poison was one of the ten poisons of the Qin Imperial Family, this poison was made of poisonous herbs from the highly poisonous snake produced in the Black Forest outside Tianbi Mountain, this poison has no antidote, and those who are poisoned by this poison can almost kill on the spot, but this poison will not make people's bodies rot, and the poison that can make people's bodies rot is likely to be corpse devouring Gu." ”
Zhao Huaiyan has no research on drugs, although Western Qin has always been very good at making drugs, but rarely used it externally, Zhao did not talk to foreign countries before, nor did he negotiate with other countries, so he naturally had less contact, but Tianxing was stationed in Qin all the year round and had a very clear understanding of Qin's vegetarian system.
The ten poisons of the Qin royal family generally have no antidote, and the toxicity is overbearing, so they are rarely used.
This time, it did.
Zhao Huaiyan watched Huadiao's corpse festering in front of her eyes at the speed of the naked eye, but she couldn't do anything, her heart was painful, her eyes were sad, because of such a poison, she didn't even have a chance to get close to her, let alone hug her and give her a ride, she hated Qin Zhi to the core.
Zhao Huaiyan didn't blink her eyes during the whole process, but when the flesh of the flower carving corroded, and only Sensen's white bones remained, she didn't see any Gu, she asked in a deep voice with a little puzzlement, "Doesn't the corpse devouring Gu have Gu worms?" ”
Tianxing was also puzzled, "I've never seen this poison with my own eyes, and I don't know." ”
Zhao Huaiyan closed his eyes and sighed, "Have you sent someone to buy a coffin?" ”
Tianxing said, "I bought it." ”
Zhao Huaiyan nodded, bent down to touch the face bone of the flower carving, but was blocked by Tianxing's hand.
Zhao Huaiyan said, "The bones are not corroded, which means that this poison only has an effect on the flesh, not on human bones, you don't have to worry, these bones are not poisonous." ”
Tianxing frowned and said, "It's better to be careful." ”
Zhao Huaiyan withdrew his hand and said to Qu Zhao, "When the cremation is finished, I will dress me with a little flower carving ashes, and I will take her by my side and let her watch the enemy die with her own eyes." ”
Qu Zhao responded, "Yes! ”
She found a way to cremate Huadiao's body, and took out a little bit of ashes and put them in a brocade bag alone, stuffed them into a purse, and handed them to Zhao Huaiyan.
Zhao Huaiyan wore it on his body and went to see Yan Guangning.
Before he walked to Yan Guangning's bed, Yinmian came back, and when he came back, he entered the main room, and saw Zhao Huaiyan standing there, as well as Qu Zhao next to him, he was shocked, stunned for a long time, God, who did he see? Emperor!
Yinmian rubbed his eyes, rubbed his eyes again, and then came back to his senses under the shout of Tianxing.
It's really the emperor!
He hurriedly stepped forward to salute, threw his sword scabbard to the ground, knelt on one knee, and shouted respectfully, "Yinmian has seen the emperor, and the emperor is blessed with Jin'an!" ”
Zhao Huaiyan said, "Get up!" ”
Yinmian said, "Emperor Xie" and then stood up with his sword.
Zhao Huaiyan asked him, "Is the coffin bought?" ”
Yinmian said, "I bought it, but I didn't bring it back, I was still in the coffin shop, because I wanted to bring a coffin into the restaurant was too eye-catching, and it was easy to be suspicious, so I left the coffin in the coffin shop, and after the body of the flower carving was cremated, take her ashes to the coffin shop, and put the coffin into the coffin, which will not make people suspicious, if the emperor thinks it is inappropriate, I will go to the coffin shop and transport the coffin back." ”
Zhao Huaiyan said, "No, you did a good job." ”
Yinmian glanced at Huadiao's bed, but didn't see Huadiao's body, and he asked, "What about Huadiao's corpse?" ”
Qu Zhao said, "It's been cremated, and I put away the urn." ”
Silverface was stunned, "So fast? ”
Qu Zhao nodded.
Yinmian sighed, thinking to himself, he is worthy of being a celebrity who follows the emperor, this ability is really not comparable to ordinary people.
Although Huadiao has not yet been buried in the ground, her ashes were carried by Qu Zhao and Zhao Huaiyan, and she can be regarded as a well-deserved death, as for Yan Guangning......
Zhao Huaiyan looked at Yan Guangning who was sleeping, her eyebrows became tighter and tighter, and she asked Tianxing, "Do you know what kind of poison Princess Guangning has been poisoned?" ”
Tianxing said, "It may be a puppet." ”
Zhao Huaiyan raised his eyebrows, "Puppet scattered? What's the name? ”
Celestial Star explained, "The puppet is a poison that seeps into the blood of the poisoner when it is lowered, so as to control the puppet in the poison, so that the poisoner obeys the poisoner's orders, just like a descending technique. ”
Zhao Huaiyan knew very little about these crooked ways, as a golden spy network organization stationed in the Qin State, he would naturally send back some news about the Qin Land from time to time, but about these ten poisons, because the royal family had never used them, Tianxing had never said it to Zhao Huaiyan.
Zhao Huaiyan listened, put his hands behind his back, and muttered, "How to solve it?" ”
Tianxing said, "There is basically no antidote to the ten poisons. ”
Zhao Huaiyan said, "Is there really no antidote?" ”
Tianxing said, "I don't know very well, because the ten poisons are only exclusive to the royal family, and for so many years, the royal family has never used these poisons externally, so I haven't studied too much, otherwise, I'll go to Bo Mansion tomorrow and ask?" ”
Zhao Huaiyan waved his hand, "No need, I will personally go to the Prince's Mansion tomorrow to ask Qin Zhi for advice." ”
Tianxing exclaimed, "The emperor is going to the prince's mansion?" ”
Zhao Huaiyan said, "Yes." ”
Tianxing was about to speak again, Zhao Huaiyan stopped her, she looked at her, paused slightly, and said, "You don't have to worry about me, I dare to come, I know in my heart, it's getting late, I drove all the way over, I'm very tired, you arrange a comfortable room, by the way, prepare two sets of warm and convenient skirts, and prepare a set of veils, just go and get busy with yourself." ”
All the words that Tianxing was worried about and stopped were in Zhao Huaiyan's words, she said yes, and asked, "What about Princess Yan Guangning?" ”
Zhao Huaiyan looked at Yan Guangning on the bed, "Is she asleep?" ”
Tianxing said, "No, I pierced her with a sleeping hole." ”
Zhao Huaiyan said, "If you sleep so much, does it affect your body?" ”
Tianxing said, "It will have an impact, if you don't eat all day long, you will lose weight somewhat, but it will not be life-threatening." ”
Zhao Huaiyan said, "Then let her fall asleep like this first, and then decide whether to let her wake up after I go to the Prince's Mansion tomorrow and see Qin Zhi after seeing her." ”
Skystar said, "Okay. ”
Zhao Huaiyan took Qu Zhao and went out.
Tianxing immediately asked Yinmian to clean up the room in person and bring Zhao Huaiyan and Qu Zhao over.
This night, Zhao Huaiyan and Qu Zhao rested at the Tianxing Restaurant.
And Qinghai, who left one step ahead of them, went straight to the prince's mansion of Qin, Qin Shuang lived in the prince's mansion, and Qin Zhi was naturally not in the same courtyard, Qin Shuang had been living in the palace before marrying into the state of Chu, and this time he came back to the provincial family, and the reason why he lived in the prince's mansion was because Princess Weiguo and Princess Zhou were there, and she lived in the prince's mansion to accompany them.
Chu Ye is Qin Shuang's husband, so he naturally lives with her.
That night, Chu Ye was still sitting under the lamp with a book and reading it, and Qin Shuang entered the inner room under the service of Xi Luo and sat in front of the dressing mirror.
Ciro was unloading her hair bun, Qin Shuang took hand balm from the counter and applied it on her hands, probably just after bathing, the woman reflected in the bronze mirror was no longer so sharp, with a few traces of soft moisture, she hung her head slightly, and her snow-white face was imprinted under the night light.
After Xi Luo removed a strand of bun, she also just finished painting one hand, she held that hand in front of her eyes and watched, and said, "Huadiao is dead, Yan Guangning was killed by the puppet, although he was rescued, but it is useless, the reason why the ten poisons of the Qin royal family are listed in the royal family is because there is no antidote to these ten poisons, unless you die, there will be no liberation, this is a good show, Yan Guangning is subject to Qin, even if Yan Chi is angry, he can't do anything about Qin, unless, he doesn't care about Yan Guangning's life or death." ”
Ciro's heart was beating with shock, and her eyelids trembled, but she didn't dare to speak.
She just listened quietly, and she knew that the reason why the princess chatted with her was only to express her smug feelings, and she didn't want her to answer or diverge.
Ciro was silent, quietly unbunding her hair.
Chu Ye, who was a little tired after reading a few pages of books, came out of the study at the other end of the big bedroom, and just walked around to the door of the bedroom, before he could reach out and brush the curtain, he heard Qin Shuang's words, his eyes shook fiercely, and the hand that was stretched out suddenly paused, and then slowly hung down, and slowly clenched again.
His thin lips were pursed, his teeth were slightly sunken, his eyes were raised a little, and through the beaded gauze curtains, he saw his wife sitting in front of the vanity mirror, her face gloomy and terrible.
She actually attacked Yan Guangning!
Still such heavy hands.
Chu Ye doesn't like Qin Shuang, marrying her is nothing more than forced by the situation, from marriage to now, he has been acting like a coward, letting this ninth princess of Qin dominate everything in the prince's mansion, she likes to control, then let her control it, but no matter how much she likes to master, she is surnamed Qin, don't think about really setting off any waves in the prince's mansion.
In the state of Chu, Chu Ye is confident that he has the ability to stabilize everything.
After coming to Qin, he didn't care about anything, he accompanied a few princes to drink all day long, chatted, played chess, and read books at night.
He is not very enthusiastic about love, and Qin Shuang does not seem to be keen either.
This is better, lest she become pregnant, he will have to treasure her, so that she can interfere in the political affairs of her Chu State through the heir.
He thought that this princess of Qin was arrogant at most, but he didn't expect her to be so vicious!
If Chu Ye remembers correctly, this Qin Shuang has a good relationship with the two princesses of Yan Kingdom after going to the World Billboard Conference, how can she do it!
Chu Ye was furious, but he could only pretend that he didn't know anything.
He didn't want to go into the house anymore, so he turned back to the study and took out a book to read.
After serving Qin Shuang to sleep, Xiluo came over to call him, Chu Ye didn't raise his head, only said, "I'm not sleepy, you just serve your princess, don't worry about me." ”
Ciro let out a sigh and went down in a sneer.
Chu Ye held the scroll, but he couldn't read a word, he didn't know if this path was right, but he firmly believed that once his sister Chu Chaohuan married into Yan Kingdom, the situation would improve.
But in life, there are many accidents.
Qinghai broke into the palace of the prince of Qin at night and killed Qin Shuang, which provoked turmoil in the entire Qin state.
Even Zhao Huaiyan was affected.
Hua Diao died, Yan Guangning disappeared, and Lou Wei fled, which made Qin Zhi very angry, and the twelve Jingwei knelt in front of him in a row to plead guilty, and they all tried to make him extinguish the fire.
That night, without his knowledge, his own sister, the noble Ninth Princess of the Qin Kingdom, died tragically on the couch again!
The death was miserable, all the tendons and tendons were broken, and the head was gone.
Judging from the twisted arc of her body below her head, she was greatly tortured when she died.
Qin Zhi was furious, and Emperor Qin even ordered the whole city to arrest this person, threatening, who can catch the executioner who killed the princess, reward 10,000 taels of gold, 100 acres of fertile land, and Xuan Chu Ye into the palace, almost sharply asked, "The princess was killed, as the person next to the pillow, didn't you notice it at all?" ”